Automatic Windows Restart

[czcon1]

:?: I have a couple issues so I'm going to put them all in this one post. First thing it's my buddies computer but I helped him build it so I know all his components. He was waiting to start a online poker torny left his computer and when he returned it just kept restarting, it gets to the welcome screen just barely starts the music then restarts. Nothing has been installed, programs or new hardware lately. When he tries to start in safe mode same thing happens, we have tried all the options, last known best config and so on. Any ideas would be great. Second his floppy drive stopped working before this happened so he replaced it with a new one and cable, the light is always on, it's configured in the bios and in device manager it says it's working properly. I mention this because we were going to reformat and reinstall windows but he's got 2 SATA HD's in RAID 0, and need to install the raid drivers from a floppy. So next question is is there anyway to install the raid drivers without a floppy? What I would like to do is be able to start up use the file and transfer wizard to save a few things then reinstall windows. Any help would be appreciated. He's also running WINDOWS XP PRO W/SP2

 

[cowboytech]

Sound like the floppy ribbon cable is on backwards.
my first guess by the symtoms would be power supply.
unplug the data cables from the hard drives and see if it still reboots.

 

[CcXD]

hey there. About ur floppy problem, I think rotating cable micht solve the issue, try finding pin 1, or rotating flat cable. Also check for porwer supply, those r the only things that keep a floppy's light on, that and bad mainboard or bad floppy.

hope it helps

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